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Dan Brown Books.
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 (August 31, 2015 at 1:36 am)Alex K Wrote: Angels&Demons is my guilty pleasure. As a trained particle physicist, I don't notice the historical inaccuracies so much next to Brown's ridiculous grasp of physics So you're saying we won't be getting antimatter bombs any time soon? ![[Image: rySLj1k.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i.imgur.com%2FrySLj1k.png) If you have any serious concerns, are being harassed, or just need someone to talk to, feel free to contact me via PM  (August 31, 2015 at 12:35 am)AFTT47 Wrote: I thought The DaVinci Code was a very cool movie - as long as you accepted that it was fiction and didn't try to square it with actual history. Didn't care for Angels and Demons though. My issue with Angels and Demons was with Ewan McGregor as a priest. He's way too hot to be a priest. (August 31, 2015 at 1:55 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(August 31, 2015 at 1:21 am)Kitan Wrote: There is nothing wrong with the Twilight Saga either. >.> ![[Image: 2a3f8cd0a626b26ef01affea83e67fe697d1f9ca...d6fc70.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=s2.quickmeme.com%2Fimg%2F2a%2F2a3f8cd0a626b26ef01affea83e67fe697d1f9ca5663b2590724418e14d6fc70.jpg) (August 31, 2015 at 6:28 am)Alex K Wrote:(August 31, 2015 at 6:22 am)abaris Wrote: I read three of his books. The only one I found gripping was the first one I read, but that was because I haven't read anything else by him. For me, it seems he always writes the same book with very few variations. They get old pretty quickly. I enjoyed Angels and Demons and DaVinci Code, but the shine had worn off The Dan Brown style by the time I got to the Lost Symbol and new exactly what to look for to solve major parts of the big puzzle by, like, page 50. For example: And other little annoyances. The other big one for me is that Robert Langdon doesn't ever seem to learn anything or show much awareness of the weird situations he keeps finding himself in. When I read Lost Symbol for the first time, I kept wanting Langdon to just stop and have a frustrated "Again?! REALLY?!?!?" kind of moment that he was finding himself in the midst of yet another city-wide treasure hunt plot and it never happened. A lot of the issues I had with LS would have easily been taken care of had Langdon had one of those moments, or simply acknowledged his shitty luck as of late, a couple times throughout the book. With that said, though, I enjoy the books, but I usually stop reading long before the book actually ends because his endings drag on and on... especially A&D.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
Yeah, Digital Fortress was not good. Deception Point was much better.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---  (August 31, 2015 at 9:59 am)Iroscato Wrote:(August 31, 2015 at 1:36 am)Alex K Wrote: Angels&Demons is my guilty pleasure. As a trained particle physicist, I don't notice the historical inaccuracies so much next to Brown's ridiculous grasp of physics Well it depends on your expectations, you can have an antimatter bomb that has enough yield to get a bacterium seriously annoyed.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
RE: Dan Brown Books.
August 31, 2015 at 11:47 am
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Clueless, your objection is invalid
http://www.calendarioromano.org/ https://www.google.de/search?q=georg+g%C...4UCh3BcwS_
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
(August 31, 2015 at 11:47 am)Alex K Wrote: Clueless, your objection is invalid What? Are those guys supposed to be hot or something??
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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Copenhagen School  Religious Views: Its all bullshit to keep you handing money to the usher. (August 31, 2015 at 8:25 am)Alex K Wrote: Lol, Digital Fortress. That Computer stuff was a bit too much. Or double jeopardy to save the world. I lawled at that part.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
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Copenhagen School Religious Views: Its all bullshit to keep you handing money to the usher. (August 31, 2015 at 11:17 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Yeah, Digital Fortress was not good. Deception Point was much better. I read angels and demons too. I find his concepts are decent, but I find his writing is bad, research is sloppy, and I hate his characters.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. RE: Dan Brown Books.
August 31, 2015 at 5:35 pm
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He inspired me to plan my own physics based thriller. I always felt that one should do something like he does, but better.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
RE: Dan Brown Books.
August 31, 2015 at 5:43 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2015 at 5:43 pm by Clueless Morgan.)
(August 31, 2015 at 5:35 pm)Alex K Wrote: He inspired me to plan my own physics based thriller. I always felt that one should do something like he does, but better. Lol, you've just described the impetus for about 85% of the fanfiction I've started 
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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